Tuesday, 9 October 2012

The Department for Transport has asked headhunters to search for senior managers who could run the West Coast rail franchise on behalf of the state-backed Directly Operated Railways (DOR) from December 9.

A spokesman for the DfT said the decision to appoint recruiters was part of the department’s “contingency planning” to determine whether a senior management team could be found quickly enough if the DOR is put in charge of the franchise.What a lot of wags there are in the Department for Transport!Safety cases not withstanding.And precisely how much is this costing and who is paying?